Disco de Iron Maiden: “Live After Death [DVD]”

Is this recording really 23 years old? Can it be? Has time slipped away that quickly. Some would certainly argue the opposite. In fact, all of us waiting to finally get a picture clean-up and an audio enhancement would probably say that it seems as though the wait has been forever or long overdue at best.

But here it finally is...Live After Death on two DVD disks. Disk one is the classic performance wrap-up of Iron Maiden's 1984/1985 World Slavery show in Long Beach, CA. This just has got to go into any Maiden fan's collection. The cleaned-up, full screen picture is better than the VHS, but it still makes you appreciate how much better the technology is today. The audio has been converted to 5:1 and sounds terrific. The Live After Death set list goes:

"Intro: Churchill's Speech"

"Aces High"

"2 Minutes to Midnight"

"The Trooper"

"Revelations"

"Flight of Icarus"

"Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

"Powerslave"

"The Number of the Beast"

"Hallowed Be Thy Name"

"Iron Maiden"

"Run to the Hills"

"Running Free"

"Sanctuary"

The show runs for about 90 minutes and captures a great performance and all of the energy that a Maiden show was back in the early days.

Disk two includes a lot more time than the DVD jacket suggests. The DVD jacket says that Disk Two runs for 150 minutes, but rest assured that, if you include the photo gallery tour, you get 231 minutes of Maiden stuff that includes:

1) "The History of Iron Maiden Part Two" - This is getting billed as the follow up to the 2004 release of

, but don't expect the same kind of multi-year documentary here with Part 2. To be sure, Part Two is a 60 minute documentary of only the Powerslave, or should I say World Slavery, tour. So if you're expecting (as I was) that this is another multi-year documentary of Maiden that perhaps takes us into the Janick Gers/Blaze Bayley years, you'd be mistaken.

2) "Behind the Iron Curtain" - Apx an hour in total length, this chapter features some behind the scenes stuff as Maiden made their way through Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Hungary (in 1984 I think). You also get complete live performances of:

"Aces High"

"The Trooper"

"22 Acacia Avenue"

"The Number of the Beast"

"Hallowed Be Thy Name"

"2 Minutes to Midnight"

"Run to the Hills"

3) As if the above weren't enough, you get another 50 minutes of live footage from Maiden's 1985 appearance at the Rock in Rio festival. "Scream for me, Brazil!" The picture quality was beyond repair (by today's standards) for this, but the sound is pretty good.

"Aces High"

"2 Minutes to Midnight"

"The Trooper"

"Revelations"

"Powerslave"

"Iron Maiden"

"Run to the Hills"

"Running Free"

The good news is that if you wan't a high quality A/V Rock in Rio performance by Maiden, you've got it with 2002's outstanding

DVD.

4) Finally, you get another 49 minutes of stuff with:

- "'Ello Texas!" - Same songs (3 altogether), different time period. From 1983's World Piece Tour...'22 Acacia Ave', 'Flight of Icaris' and 'Iron Maiden'.

- Videos for "Aces High" and "2 Minutes to Midnight".

- A 20 minute photo gallery tour.

How could any Iron Maiden fan pass on this. Simple...a true Iron Maiden fan CANNOT pass on this. I predict that in conjunction with the 2008 Iron Maiden "Somewhere Back in Time" World tour, the boys will record a show and release it on DVD next year with History Part Three. Let's hope on the next DVD that they switch out some of those classics that we're so used to hearing for some great tunes like Murders in the Rue Morgue, Where Eagles Dare, Killers, Die With Your Boots On, and so on and so on.

Manager Rod Smallwood explained "The original video of Live After Death has not been readily available for a long time so its good that we finally got around to this. lt was one of the first full concerts to be filmed after the advent of video and of course the live album, recorded on a different night to the video, has long been considered to be one of the seminal Metal live albums and has sold millions since. Fans have been begging us to do this DVD for some time now but we wanted to wait until we were able to recreate that whole tour to go with it and also to make it part of a series of DVDs that we are putting together around the band's history. And of course we are making sure that now we have got to it we will be giving the fans everything we can find from that period!!"

FULL LIST OF CONTENTS

Disc 1 -- LIVE AFTER DEATH

Live After Death concert with Stereo and Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio (90 minutes)

Set list --

Churchill Speech/Aces High

2 Minutes to Midnight

The Trooper

Revelations

Flight of Icarus

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Powerslave

Number of the Beast

Hallowed Be Thy Name

Iron Maiden

Run to The Hills

Running Free

Sanctuary

Disc 2 -- DOCUMENTARY / BONUS CONCERT FOOTAGE

1.The History of Iron Maiden -- Part 2 (60 mins) -- Documentary.

Band members, crew, friends and associates talk about the period in the band's career which saw the writing, recording and release of the Powerslave album, and later Live After Death, and the subsequent massive touring. And not just the serious side!!

2. Behind the Iron Curtain ( 57 mins approx) Documentary and Live -- shot during Maiden's historic tour of Poland and other parts to the Eastern Bloc in 1984 featuring interviews, live and offstage footage capturing the atmosphere of this remarkable journey behind the Wall at the height of the Cold War.

3. Live Footage - Rock in Rio '85 (50 mins approx)

Highlights from the Maiden set supporting Queen on the first day of the first Rock in Rio in front of 300,000. A bloody and stirring performance!!

4. Ello Texas -- 15 minutes -- Interview and live. Caught by a film crew in 1983 at the Alamo and sound checking their show in San Antonio.

5. Artwork Gallery, Tour Programme, Tour dates and photo gallery

6. Promotional clips for Aces High and 2 Minutes to Midnight

Subtitles for All documentary footage --

PAL version -- English HOH / Dutch / French / German / Italian / Swedish / Portuguese / Spanish

NTSC Version -- English HOH / Brazilian Portguese / Latin Spanish

This video is the ultimate Maiden. I also own the VHS 12 Wasted Years, Maiden England, and the DVD Rock in Rio (which is very good) but not as good as Live After Death.

It really is Iron Maiden at the height of their powers, and though it's VHS, the sound is very very good, prob because this video was produced by Sony Music.

I bought mine new in 1990 or so and still treasure it. The skill and musical talent of the lads is very apparent in this video. Every member of the band absolutely soars here.

SONY PLEASE PLEASE MAKE THIS A DVD!!

I saw them live in Honolulu, HI during the LAST SHOW of the World Slavery Tour in 1985. They ended the American leg of the tour in Honolulu, and Bruce announced during the show that Dave Murray would be getting married the next day in Hawaii.

The band members wore the same outfits as in the video and Bruce even had the mask that you see on Powerslave. I was just a teenager and it made a BIG impression on me. One of the best concerts I've ever seen and I just feel so lucky to be able to watch it again and again (from front row) in this video.

Up the Irons!!!

THIS IS BY FAR THE BEST IRON MAIDEN CONCERT EVER MADE. THERE'LL NEVER BE ONE LIKE THIS ONE. THEY SING AND PERFORM THEIR BEST SONGS FROM THE EARLY EIGHTIES. THIS VIDEO CAN NEVER BE COMPARED TO THEIR RECENT ONES. TOO BAD THAT THIS VIDEO IS EXPENSIVE COMPARED TO THIER OTHER VIDEOS. I'VE CHECK EVERYWHERE ON THE WEB AND ONLY AMAZON HAS IT FOR THIS PRICE. GOOD LUCK:)

Great concert! Wayyy better than the VHS copy I have.

If you look second row, center...guy with blonde hair in red leather jacket. That's me!!

I bought tickets to the Long Beach show for my girlfriends' birthday and it was the best Maiden show I'd seen since Nikko took over.